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Mozart had 600 musical compositions and Edison had 1093 patents. Only a few are remembered today, and that's the point.
JULIAN SHAPIRO
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Applying to creativity
At the beginning of a writing session, write out every bad idea that unavoidably comes to mind. Instead of being self-critical and resisting them, recognize bad ideas as progress.
Once the bad ideas are emptied, strong ideas begin to arrive.
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The Creativity Faucet
Visualize your creativity as a backed-up pipe of water. The first mile is packed with wastewater.
This wastewater must be emptied before the clear water arrives.
Because your pipe has only one faucet, there's no shortcut to achieving clarity other than first emptying the wastewater.
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Why does this work ?
Once you've generated enough bad output, your mind reflexively identifies which elements caused the badness. Then it becomes good at avoiding them. You start pattern-matching interesting and novel ideas with greater intuition.
Most creators resist their bad ideas and never reach the clear w...
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Ed Sheeran and Neil Gaiman
Ed and Neil are in the top 0.000001% of their fields. They're among, say, 25 people in the world who repeatedly generate blockbusters.
They both share the exact same creative process The creativity faucet.
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Generalist. Great minds discuss ideas, average minds discuss events, small minds discuss people.
A mental model for being creative.
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One characteristic that stands out in geniuses is immense productivity. Thomas Edison held 1,903 patents. Bach wrote a cantata every week, regardless of sickness. Mozart produced over 600 pieces of music. Einstein published 249 papers.
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Creative Productivity
Quality is a probabilistic function of quantity, meaning that when a creative makes the most attempts, there will be hits and misses.
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Prolific Minds Keep On Giving
- Pablo Picasso was a great artist who created 50,000 works of art in his life. He devoted his life to art and every idea he had, had to be captured on canvas;
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